How to use WordPress Pros and Cons!

WordPress is a free platform initially developed to build webblogs. However, despite its initial use as a blogging CMS, many web designers prefer WordPress for websites. WordPress is the most favoured solution for media due to various advantages that the platform offers. However, in many circumstances, IT professionals have discovered that WordPress was not the right choice and there could be better options available. So, if your company has decided to create a new website, which platform would you suggest?

While deciding on designing a website, you can run into several problems if you do not have access to a professional team of programmers. However, you can rely on a CMS to get your tasks done. As we have discussed, content management systems have made the process of blogging easier, but many other tasks related to web-development can be difficult to achieve.

The popularity of WordPress extends to all corners as many companies -big and small use it to power their websites. WordPress is scalable and used for websites large and small, this also means that a large developer community exists in order to continuously improve the software as well as create additional facilities and enhancements.

While WordPress has many advanced capabilities, it has some limitations too. Let us take a quick look at the advantages and disadvantages of using WordPress:

WordPress Pros:

• Straightforward content updating:

This is the main reason why most website-development managers like to use a CMS for website development, especially in cases where fresh content is regularly required. With nominal technical inputs, custom modules can be set up which can be configured as text areas, which can be used to enter text by anyone with basic computer skills.
WordPress comes with inbuilt blogging that helps site managers to include blog sections on the website easily.

• SEO Integration:

Many SEO plugins exist for WordPress, which allow you to help integrate your SEO efforts with the SERPS. With these plugins, it is possible to integrate basic SEO for each page of your website. This includes Meta titles, Meta descriptions, and H1 tags. Some plugins even indicate the ‘SEO health’ of your website by informing you how well your website is optimized for SEO.

•   Easy ecommerce options:

Many plugins also exist for creating ecommerce applications that allow shopping cart processing, ordering, shipping, and others. Suitable ecommerce integrations even exist for nearly every application or site of every size. Additionally, for WordPress, many basic-plugins are available without any cost.

•   WordPress is optimized for handheld devices:

It is easy to set up a responsive theme that works fine on mobile devices and tablets with WordPress. This ensures a consistent user experience for your website. You can also obtain responsive free themes for WordPress. With additional technical knowledge, you can create complex custom templates that work on hand-held devices.

 WordPress Cons:

• Limited Unique Options

    Since the number of basic themes WordPress offers is limited, there exists a possibility that a similar theme could be in use by someone else. Hence, you lose the opportunity of creating a unique and exclusive website.
    Need to download updates often

    Since WordPress releases a large number of patches and updates every now and then, it is essential for your website to remain up to date in order to stay safe from pirates and hackers that prowl the web.
    Requirement of an experienced programmer

    It is easy the build a WordPress site, but in order to go ahead with customization and adding the necessary bells and whistles, you will need an experienced WordPress programmer or developer.
    Initial Low Development Costs can be Misleading

    Although an advantage of WordPress is that it can be used to construct a website within a tight deadline and it is SEO friendly, the intial low development costs can be misleading since a more standard looking website requires substantial programming and can jack up the costs.